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It isn’t easy to find a pleasing bottle of pinot noir for a tenner, but here is one: very much on the lighter side, sappy, leafy and redcurrantish. From a cooperative in the Massif Central.

Creamy with ripe peach, honey and some nice high toned botrytis notes. The palate is bright and richly weighted with peach and apricot, citrus and cloudy honey.

Crisp and clean juice. Nicely pithy and not overly broad nor lean. Just well pitched. This has been in bottle since the beginning of August and is nicely settled. This remains quite tight, quite br...

Sun's out, MiP*'s in! As pale as ever, as exceptionally aromatic and fresh as ever, Guillaume Philippe’s brilliant rosé from Puyloubier, in front of the iconic Mont Saint Victoire, has a nose whi br...

The red 2016 Laderas de Leonila was harmonious with contained ripeness, serious and fresh, with something feral-like that made it a little mysterious. It had a medium-bodied palate with fine-grai br...

From sand and gravel soils this pure Cabernet Franc is superb. Loaded with crunchy dark berries and peppy red juice but there is a sheen of lovely polished black fruit too, lifted by spice and an br...

Dei's 'Rosso' is a fine-textured Sangiovese with excellent fruit and the same rounded dry texture of the Vino Nobile in a gentler form. Open on the palate, the spicy fruit is also gentle and easy br...

This really showcases the qualities of the 2018 vintage. Ripe and intense with lovely shape and depth, plenty of rich citrus, gooseberry fruit, then that tell tale gun flint, almost touch chalky br...

70% Carricante, 30% Catarratto - vines aged up to 30 years old. Quite a full yellow straw colour. Big, juicy floral and tropical fruit nose. Fresh and taut with citrus pulp flavours and insinuati br...

Sipsmith London Cup is a sublimely sippable punch crafted from their award-winning London Dry Gin, infused with Earl Grey tea, borage, lemon verbena and a host of other botanicals.

Another beautiful wine from Mathieu, pure and vibrant citrus, herbs and minerality on the nose. The palate has juice and concentration, plenty of bright gooseberry and ripe citrus fruit, clear pr br...

This is the end of the bottle so it may not be showing its best: a bit severe, green fruited and chalky in texture. But has a more mineral overlay at first and then a creamy finish. Distinctive a br...